BONUS FUN FACT: Ultra-litigious porn studio Corbin Fisher threatened to sue Mr. Lyons for over a million dollars for using images from their studio on his escort profile. Fisher said they’d drop the lawsuit if Lyons would just donate $5,400 to a non-profit queer charity.

ADVICE: Jake, you also did a bit of work as a Dum Dum-sucking bottom on Lollipop Twinks and a bareback fuckslut on Fraternity X. May we suggest staying away from the teaching profession?

Barry

wow, number 8 is the hottest one. And Brent Crrigan looks NOTHING LIKE ZAC EFRON

September 27, 2011 at 3:09pm

Cam

The thing is, whatever anybody’s opinions about porn, is that as a profession it’s seen as…somewhat outside the mainstream, which just means that often times you are going to get people outside the mainstream in it. So no shock that a few of them turn out to be criminals anymore than it would be a shock to find out that a few models or actors are also hookers.

@Cam Bingo. The barrier to entry in porn is so low, any two-bit, crystal-jacked, insecure nutbag can, within a matter of weeks, become a force of nature. I’m surprised, frankly, given those standards, Damon Kruezer is still alive/not behind bars. That is not to suggest that Damon was/is any of those things (you know, because he’s probably not), but for those of us who had even an ancillary relationship to the gay porn industry, anyone with a little moxie or pluck can make a name for himself/herself rather quickly and easily. Even criminals.

Cam

tio

JoeyB

And these are the people that we like to represent us. Yeap. Way to go.

September 27, 2011 at 6:09pm

Josh in OR

@JoeyB: Um…no one says gay porn stars represent the gay community. Does Ron Jeremy represent all straight men? Does Traci Lords represent all straight women? Hardly. Of all of these guys, the only one I know anything about is Cuadra, and that’s because the murder was all over, blogs, boards and MSM. Hardly “representing” gay men in any way.

You forgot Addison (Jason Andrews) former Sean Cody model with the fake Brit accent who took a hammer to a guys head the guy his Girl friend was massaging moments before. 😉

September 27, 2011 at 7:09pm

dvlaries

No, the ‘Ryan Idol thing’ just went down; he’s due to be sentenced December 9, and could get up to 15 years.

These seven examples, while certainly disturbing, don’t necessarily convince me that current or former porn stars are any more prone to a concurrent or subsequent life of criminality. For every Steve Daigle and Ryan Idol, there are dozens such as Rob Cryston, Sam Crockett, Cliff Parker, Mark Kroner, Ray Harley etc., who seem to realize when it’s time to leave that particular ‘party,’ and fold quietly back into whatever anonymous, private lives they had before porn fame. Some, like Matthew Rush, Chip Daniels and Doug Jeffries go to work behind the cameras and have some success there too.

For most, however, if they avoid the brand of pitfalls in this article, and any untimely demise, they’re typically never heard from again.

September 27, 2011 at 8:09pm

bbg372

Over-glorified prostitutes are involved in other illicit and criminal activities? Alert the media.

September 27, 2011 at 9:09pm

Nick

@dvlaries: He was just convicted, but the original crime happened in 2009.

September 28, 2011 at 8:09am

tim

how can you forget addison from sean cody!? my heart broke when i saw that he wouldn’t be doing porn anymore via a life sentence for murder

Jake Lyons, a true fucking asshole if there ever was on, beat his own dog to death, then took it to a vet and said the poor thing, which only had three legs, had a seizure. The vet did an autopsy which determined that the poor dog died of blunt force trauma. That little shit beat and choked his dog to death! I hope somebody served him some low-down justice in prison. If he serves any time at all, whatever they do to him in prison is too good for that rat.

trajan

Jaroslaw

An even bigger mystery – Harlow Cuadra was in the military, got good grades in school, seemed to live an exemplary life. So much for the idea that military service instills character. Of course, HC maintains his innocence, but the tons of reading I’ve done on the subject suggests that is very unlikely.

August 19, 2012 at 2:08pm

David Dollingerq

I watch gay porn perhaps more now than I ussed to, but I doubt if I could remember one adtor (star?)from another one since narrative and acting hare hardly the criterios I would apply. I admit to being a lot older than most of your readers so that could account for my ignorance. Having said that being arrested as a felon and having served time employemtn is difficult. I would imagine that the porn industry is more forgiving than the rest of the world, but ultimately I think it would have to be judged by the crime that was committed. First or even second degree murder, any kind of battery, etc. are crimes of a heinous nature. But many are locked up for crimes that are not violent yet the very environment they are living in is a horrible substitute for rehabilitation. If gay sex is a source of employment for this group, I see no problem–but I question manking it public knowledge.

August 19, 2012 at 7:08pm

Mcflyer54

@Josh in OR: And most of them profess to be “gay for pay” anyway which would actually make them representating straight wack jobs.

August 20, 2012 at 8:08pm

Raquel Santiago

These are not as major (some of them)although abusing anyone is not ok., compared to what some are doing now including the murder charge one in Canada, Magnotta. How could you possibly leave that one out. Alth

August 21, 2012 at 6:08pm

scamandrios

Jake Lyons is accused of battery? Isn’t he like 5’2? Oh well, his crime(s) isn’t/aren’t severe enough to diminish my desire to watch him get fucked.

And the CF bit just makes me like him more- I had a membership to CF until I got bored enough to listen to the site’s “pod cast” gloating over how they abuse the legal system while apparently whoring out their models to their lawyer as part of their payment. Granted they didn’t come right out and say that but he eluded to having more than a professional or friendly relationship with their “models” and based on the overt sleazy feeling his voice and demeanor exuded I find it difficult to believe any of them would touch the guy unless something fishy were in the works.

August 23, 2012 at 1:08am

scamandrios

…and my guess is that the reason so many gay porn uh, performers, are “gay for pay” is purely for business reasons- for one, they get more of a gay following for going on with the hetero fantasy, their job is after all to facilitate sexual fantasy and no matter what anyone might rant many gay guys at least know a straight dude they want to “play” with so it feeds into that fantasy; reading sociopolitical elements into it is absurd and laughable. “Straight” porn has a similar issue- there are many female pornographic performers who will not have sex with non-Caucasian/”white” guys because the apparent multitude of racist pornography fans out there will sour on them.

However, some of the gay porn guys who do this just insult our intelligence; if you gleefully get double penetrated and gang-banged by oh I dunno, 12 huge cocks several times a month on top of the whole sex with men thing then no, you are not straight. Not in any fathomable universe.

August 23, 2012 at 1:08am

JayHobeSound

The murder of Bryan Kocis (Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes) is a textbook lesson in how to get caught when committing murder. They left an e-mail trail and cell phone record trail contacting Kocis and scheduling to meet him at his (Kocis’) house. They stole his computer (thought it had the ‘only’ master copies of his videos, lol), set the house on fire to destroy prints/evidence, and were observed by neighbors who were alerted by Kocis’ loud fire/burglar alarm fleeing in their rental car – rented on one of their own credit cards. So they killed someone who had never harmed them, ruined both of their lives and all because they wanted some twink to work for their porn ‘studio.’ F-in stupid psychopaths.

August 27, 2012 at 4:08pm

Rob Moore

I would like to point out that almost all the gay and gay-for-pay porn stars do not go on to ruined lives of drugs, prostitution, crime, etc. Some of the most interesting bloggers are current or former gay porn stars. Colby Keller is both sexy, very intelligent, and writes better than 99% of people in general. More than one has gone on to schoole to

As for Jake Lyons, a.k.a. Greg on Corbin Fisher, I suspect his life would be going downhill with or without his involvement in gay porn. Still his one hardcore scene on Corbin Fisher was unusually good. On Bait Bus, he just seemed like a common hooker. On Fraternity X, he proved that he would do anything for booze and a buck.

When one is able to get honest bios on most of the them, it is often fascinating and interesting. They come from many different backgrounds. Some of them really are financing their educations. Some escort, some don’t. It amazes me the number of them who are current or former military. Some were or are policemen. Some of the most extreme came from hard-core religious backgrounds.

August 29, 2012 at 1:08pm

Ozboy

U missed one of the hottest stars of the 80s-90s, Tim Lowe who was arrested for murder. What ever happened to him???

October 19, 2013 at 5:10pm

mz.sam

Wow, with all this timely exposé reporting…it really must be a very slow news day!

December 13, 2013 at 7:12pm

inbama

Lord, if these guys weren’t all killers, thieves and other assorted freaks, you can be sure there’d be hordes of outraged bisexuals protesting that Queerty and its commenters were committing “Bisexual Erasure” again.

October 13, 2014 at 2:10pm

bearfuzzlover

@Ozboy: From by Bio archives, soon after he retired from the industry, Tom Lowe (real name David Cody) became addicted to drugs and was said to have been “infected with HIV,” and in the early 1990s, supporting a wife and son by selling sex to older men in the Los Angles area, where he lived with his wife, Renne (divorced in 1992).

Moving to San Francisco, Lowe met a man in his early 50’s called Allen Kinkead at the Campus Theatre, where Tim Lowe was performing and they became lovers with Lowe moving in with Mr Kinkead. The story does not end here, however, as gay lovers, as on 4 January 1993, Lowe is said to have strangled Mr Kinkead (with whom he had once been living as his lover), and a few weeks later, “he was arrested for the murder at a road block in Alamagoro, New Mexico with his then girlfriend, Kimberly Stefanic,” according to my file.

Because Lowe and Stefanic stole Mr Kinkead’s car and credit cards, he and/or Stefanic faced a possible death penalty for murder in the commission of a robbery. However, after a year in the county jail, he decided to do some plea bargaining to get himself off and pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter … and given just three years in the state prison and probation, and effectively becoming “a free man” for murder – when many say he should have been serving a life sentence or received the death sentence as, to Mr Kinkead’s friends, “it seemed that the infamous Tim Lowe had done what made him famous in the first place – he got off.”

April 3, 2015 at 10:04am

bearfuzzlover

@bearfuzzlover: Should have read Tim and not Tom Lowe … my keyboard wanted a Easter holiday!